(Thanks to Chuck Utzman we know have a link to MoveOn.org who has made the whole interview available. See update.)
Here is a link to the embedded video at YouTube for those that can not see it below: Elizabeth Warren and Thomas Piketty Discussion.
Ryan Grim of Huffington Post gives us two teasers promoting HuffPo's exclusive simultaneous interview of Senator Elizabeth Warren, author of A Fighting Chance, and economist Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century, which will be shown tonight on Huffington Post Live at 8:30 p.m. EST. They were interviewed in Boston's historic Old South Meeting House, and Senator Warren was asked what a presidential run would mean. Grim's tease is she did not rule out a run.
In Elizabeth Warren On What A Presidential Bid Would Mean, Ryan Grim recounts:
BOSTON - Asked whether she would be running for president in 2016, Elizabeth Warren framed the coming debate as one of defining values at a critical moment. She stopped short of committing to or rejecting a White House bid, and her answer will likely further speculation about a Warren candidacy.
Warren ;...] was asked about the promise in her book that she was "fiercely determined to do everything I can to help us once again be the America that creates opportunities for anyone who works hard and plays by the rules."
"I do believe in us," said Warren. "And I believe in us on days like this, on a morning where a whole lot of people come together to talk about ideas, to talk about two books. Because what we're talking about in here is we're talking about economics, we're talking about power, but we're also talking about values. This is a moment in time for our country and, I believe, for our world, a moment in time where we decide who we are as a people and what kind of a future we're going to build. As your [Thomas Piketty's] book shows, it's tough, it is an uphill climb. It will not happen naturally that the world will even back out. But what it also shows is that these are not natural forces that make it happen, it's a set of rules by which we govern ourselves, and here in America we the people get to decide what the rules are. So I get how hard this is. This is about concentrated money and power on one side, but it's about our values, our voices and our votes on our side. I believe we can fight back. I believe we can win."
In a seperate article, Ryan Grim puts out another teaser, in Thomas Piketty On The Financial Times: 'This Particular Debate Is Over,' Piketty says he has "no plans to respond further to Financial Times editor Chris Giles," whose criticism of his book has been thoroughly refuted.
"This particular debate is over," Piketty said. The British paper had accused Piketty of getting his "sums" wrong, and "cherry-picking" data sources to fit a preconceived notion about wealth inequality. It turned out, however, that the FT failed to properly understand the way that Piketty had arrived at his conclusions. On Thursday, Piketty answered the FT's charges in a point-by-point rebuttal. Observers of the debate were nearly unanimous in declaring it conclusively over, with the FT's various critiques fully satisfied. ...
But more fundamentally, Giles and other critics of the book, Piketty said, are deceiving themselves if they think that discrediting his work will somehow improve the long-run political fortunes of the people who read The Financial Times.
The problem, he said, is not his book -- it's reality. "People should be afraid more of the realities than with my book. My book is not the problem. The problem is rising inequality, the fact that top wealth holders have been rising three times faster than the size of the economy," he said, referencing the upper echelons of the Forbes 500 list, which he noted have seen their wealth rise thrice as fast as the economy has grown. "If the FT has a different ranking, they should publish it, but apparently they don't have it so, you know, they should stop."
Grim reports that the interviewer asks Warren her what advice she would have for Piketty in this debate, and she says, "hit back."
Both of these articles contain embedded videos in a format that do not seem to run here.
Senator Elizabeth Warren and Thomas Piketty are two of our most articulate and top selling spokespeople for progressive viewpoints, so this interview with the two together, looks as if it should be worthwhile to watch. It starts tonight, in just over two hours from this posting.
Elizabeth Warren & Thomas Piketty's Message to MoveOn Members
8:06 PM PT: Thanks to Chuck Utzman for this link to the full interview.
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